Professional Activities
(2004-2008)
Conference Participation (Presentations, Discussions
and Session Chairs)
2008
Kenneth Ahern,
Presentation: AFA, EFA, China International Conference in Finance;
Discussion: EFA, China International Conference in Finance.
Sreedhar Bharath,
Presentation: AFA, WFA; Discussion: Washington University Corporate Finance
Conference, Yale Corporate Governance Center Conference.
Sugato Bhattacharyya,
Presentation: FIRS; Session Chair: FIRS,
China International Conference in Finance.
Amy
Dittmar,
Presentation: AFA.
Robert Dittmar,
Presentation: AFA.
Haitao, Li,
Presentation: Econometric Society, WFA; Discussion: WFA.
Francisco Palomino,
Presentation: WFA, CRSP Forum, China International Conference in Finance,
EFA, Society of Economic Dynamics, Econometric Society.
Paolo Pasquariello,
Presentation: NBER Market Microstructure, AEA, AFA, System Finance
Conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Uday
Rajan,
Presentation: EFA, FIRS, WFA; Discussion: EFA, FIRS, NBER Market
Microstructure, WFA.
Kathy Yuan,
Presentation: AFA; Discussion: AFA.
Lu
Zhang,
Presentation: UBC PH&N Finance Conference, FIRS, CRSP Forum; Discussion: AFA,
The Credit Risk and Credit Derivatives Conference at Federal Reserve Board,
Caesarea Center Annual Conference, FIRS, NBER Summer Institute Asset
Pricing, UBC PH&N Summer Finance Conference.
2007
Sreedhar Bharath,
Presentation: EFA
Sugato Bhattacharyya, Discussion: HKUST Finance Conference;
Discussion: WFA; Presentations (2): WFA.
Jonathan Cohn
(PhD student), Presentation: WFA 2007
Amy Dittmar,
Presentation: WFA, EFA.
Robert Dittmar,
Presentation: WFA, EFA; Session chair: WFA.
Ryan Israelsen
(PhD Student), Presentation: AREUEA; Discussion: AREUEA.
Haitao, Li,
Presentation: WFA; Discussion: WFA.
Paige P. Ouimet
(PhD Student), Presentation: EFA 2007.
Paolo Pasquariello,
Presentation: AEA, AFA, EFA, MTS Conference on Financial Markets;
Discussion: ASSA-SGE, McGill Conference on Global Asset Management.
Tyler Shumway,
Presentation: WFA.
Kathy Yuan,
Presentation: WFA, NBER Market Microstructure, DUKE-UNC Asset Pricing
Conference.
Lu Zhang,
Presentation: AFA, UBC PH&N Finance Conference; Discussion: NBER Asset
Pricing, Duke/UNC Asset Pricing Conference; Session Chair: AFA.
2006
Sreedhar Bharath,
Presentation at AFA annual meetings; presentation at NBER Corporate
Finance group meetings.
Sugato Bhattacharyya,
Discussion at WFA annual meetings.
Amy Dittmar,
Presentation at Duke/UNC Corporate Finance Conference, session chair at AFA
annual meetings, discussant at WFA annual meetings.
Ryan Israelson
(PhD Student), Presentation at AREUEA annual meetings.
Haitao Li, Presentation at AFA annual meetings.
Paolo Pasquariello,
Presentation at AFA annual meetings; presentation at NBER Corporate Finance
group meetings; presentation at NBER Market Microstructure group meetings.
Amiyatosh Purnanandam,
Presentations at WFA and EFA annual meetings, discussions at NBER Asset
Pricing Summer Institute and EFA annual meetings.
Uday Rajan,
Presentations at WFA annual meetings and NBER Microstructure meetings,
discussant at WFA meetings.
Tyler Shumway,
Presentation at AFA annual meetings.
Kathy Yuan,
Discussion at 12th Mitsui Life Symposium on Global Financial Markets.
Lu Zhang,
Presentations at AFA annual meetings, Utah Winter Finance Conference and
Asset Pricing Workshop at NBER Summer Institute; discussion at WFA annual
meetings.
2005
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Sreedhar Bharath,
Presentation at AFA annual meetings.
Amy Dittmar,
Presentation at NBER Summer Institute.
Robert Dittmar,
Presentation at Utah Winter finance meetings; discussant at Duke/UNC Asset
Pricing Conference and WFA annual meetings.
Haitao Li,
Presentation at WFA annual meetings.
Paolo Pasquariello, Presentation at AFA
annual meetings and EFA annual meetings, 2005.
Amiyatosh Purnanandam,
Presentation at WFA annual meetings.
Uday Rajan,
Presentation at Utah Winter Finance Conference.
Lu Zhang,
Presentations at AFA, EFA and Utah Winter Finance Conference annual
meetings; discussions at AFA and WFA annual meetings.
Lu Zheng, Presentations at AFA and EFA annual meetings,
discussion at 11th Mitsui Life Symposium on Global Financial Markets.
2004
Robert Dittmar,
Presentation at AFA meetings; discussant at WFA.
Haitao Li,
Presentation at WFA annual meetings; discussion at AFA annual meetings.
M.P. Narayanan,
Presentation at WFA annual meetings.
Paolo Pasquariello,
Presentations at AFA and EFA annual meetings.
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Presentation at WFA
annual meetings.
Lu Zhang,
Presentations and discussions at AEA annual meetings, WFA annual meetings
and NBER Fall Asset Pricing meeting; discussion at AEA annual meetings.
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Editorships
and Associate Editorship
Sugato Bhattacharya,
Co-Editor,
Finance
Research Letters;
Associate Editor: International Review of Finance.
Dennis Capozza,
Special Issue Editor, “REITs and Real Estate,” spring 2005;
Journal of
Real Estate Finance and Economics,
Journal of
Housing Economics,
Journal of Housing Research,
Journal of the Asian Real Estate Society
and
Journal of
Real Estate Research,
through present.
Gautam Kaul,
Associate Editor,
Journal of
Financial Markets,
through present.
E. Han Kim,
Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting,
through present; Editorial Review board,
Journal of
Business Research,
through present;
International Review of Economics and Finance, through present; Editorial Advisory board,
Journal of
Asian Business, through present;
Research in Financial Economics,
2005 through present.
Uday Rajan,
Associate Editor: Marketing Science (2007).
Nejat Seyhun,
Editorial board member,
ISE Review and
Finance
Letters.
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Association Committees
Dennis Capozza,
President, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, 2005;
Member, Board of Directors, American Real Estate and Urban Economics
Association, 2001 through present; Member, Advisory Board, Financial
Economics Network, through present.
Amy Dittmar,
AFA Nominating Committee, 2006.
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Program Committees
Sreedhar Bharath,
Program Committee: EFA 2007,2008; Awards committee: FMA 2007.
Sugato Bhattacharyya,
Program committee: FIRS 2008, China Finance Conference 2008, Singapore
Finance Conference 2008.
Amy Dittmar,
Program committee: WFA 2007, 2008, AFA 2006, FMA 2004, 2007.
Robert Dittmar,
Program committee: WFA 2007, EFA 2006.
Gautam Kaul,
Program committee: WFA 1994-2007.
M.P. Narayanan,
Program committee: EFMA 2008, FMA 2008, EFA 2006, FMA 2004-2006; Session
chair/organizer: FMA 2004-2006.
Paolo Pasquariello,
Program committee: FMA 2008, EFA Doctoral Symposium, 2007, FMA European
2007; Awards committee: FMA 2007.
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Program committee: FMA 2007.
Tyler Shumway,
Program committee: EFA 2004.
Lu Zhang,
Program committee: Asian Finance Association /Nippon Finance Association
Conference 2008, FIRS 2008, AFA 2007, WFA 2007, 2008.
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Awards and Grants (2004-2008)
Sreedhar Bharath,
Lead article, “Accounting Quality and Debt Contracting” 2008,
The
Accounting Review
(with Jayanthi Sunder and Shyam Sunder).
Sreedhar Bharath,
Recipient, UK Q Group grant for “Does Industry Wide Distress Affect
Defaulted Firms? Evidence from Creditor Recoveries,” (with Viral Acharya and
Anand Srinivasan).
Sreedhar Bharath, Winner of the best paper prize, Caesarea
Center 5th Annual Academic Conference, IDC Herzliya 2008 meetings, Israel
for “The Changing Nature of Chapter 11”, (with Venky Panchapagesan and
Ingrid Werner).
Sreedhar Bharath,
Fama-DFA Prize (Second Place) for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of
Financial Economics in the Areas of Capital Markets and Asset Pricing, 2007
for “Does Industry Wide Distress Affect Defaulted Firms? Evidence from
Creditor Recoveries,” (with Viral Acharya and Anand Srinivasan).
Sreedhar Bharath
and Amy Dittmar, Best Paper LECG Award for Best Paper
in Corporate Finance at EFA 2007.
Sreedhar Bharath, Winner, best paper in Financial
Institutions and Markets (sponsored by Fannie Mae), 2004 FMA Annual Meetings
for “So What Do I Get: A Bank’s View of Lending Relationships?” (with
Sandeep Dahiya, Anthony Saunders and Anand Srinivasan).
Sreedhar Bharath,
Winner, Board of Banque de France grant ($30,000) for “Understanding Credit
Spreads: The Role of Systematic Variation in Expected Loss and Liquidity,”
(with Viral Acharya and Yakov Amihud).
Dennis Capozza,
2005 E.S. Mills Award for Best Paper in
Real Estate Economics.
Amy Dittmar,
Lead article, “Why Do Firms Issue Equity?” 2007,
Journal of
Finance
(with Anjan Thakor).
Amy
Dittmar,
“Why Do Firms Repurchase Stock?” 2000,
Journal of
Business,
73, 331-355, Reprinted in
Recent
Developments in Corporate Finance, 2005, Edward Elgar Publishers, ed. Jay
Ritter.
Robert Dittmar,
Nominated for Smith-Breeden Prize, 2005, for best paper in the
Journal of
Finance in 2005, for “Consumption, Dividends, and the Cross-Section
of Equity Returns,”
Journal of
Finance,
60, 1639-1672, (with Ravi Bansal and Christian Lundblad).
Ryan Israelson
(PhD Student), Best Paper Award, Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and
Letters, 2006.
Gautam Kaul,
Senior Faculty Research Award, Ross School of Business, 2003.
E. Han Kim,
Nominated for Brattle Prize, 2005, for “To Steal or Not to Steal: Firm
Attributes, Legal Environment, and Valuation,”
Journal of
Finance,
Vol. 60, No. 3, June, 2005, 1461-1493.
E. Han Kim,
Maekyung-KAEA Economist Award, 2006.
E. Han Kim,
CORE Award, Ross School of Business, 2004.
Paolo Pasquariello,
European Research Council (ERC) Startup Grant of Euro 765,000 (3% of 9,167
applications in all fields of science were funded), 2008-2012: Learning and
Volatility in Financial Markets (with Syngjoo Choi, Marco Cipriani, Antonio
Guarino, and Shachar Kariv).
Paolo Pasquariello,
Lead article, “Informative Trading or Just Costly Noise? An Analysis of
Central Bank Interventions” 2007,
Journal of Financial Markets.
Paolo Pasquariello,
Q Group Research Award, 2005-2006, for “Informed and Strategic Order Flow in
Bond and Stock Markets,” (with Clara Vega).
Amiyatosh Purnanandam,
Fellow, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (2004-2006).
Amiyatosh Purnanandam,
FDIC grants, $10,000 for paper “Interest Rate Derivatives at Commercial
Banks: Theory and Evidence,” $10,000 for paper “The Effect of Banking Crisis
on Bank-Dependent Borrowers”.
Uday Rajan,
GSAM Quant Prize for best paper in
Review of
Finance,
2005, for “Rationing in IPOs,” (with C. Parlour).
Uday Rajan,
Nominated for Smith Breeden Prize for best paper not in corporate finance in
the
Journal of
Finance, 2005, “Equilibrium in a Dynamic Limit Order
Market,” (with R. Goettler and C. Parlour).
Uday Rajan,
Lead article, “Equilibrium in a Dynamic Limit Order Market,”
Journal of
Finance 60(5), 2149-2192 (with R. Goettler and C.
Parlour).
Uday Rajan,
NYSE Award for best paper on equity trading, Western Finance Association
Meetings, 2004, “Equilibrium in a Dynamic Limit Order Market,” (with R.
Goettler and C. Parlour).
Tyler Shumway,
First place, Smith Breeden Prize, 2005, from American Finance Association
and
Journal of
Finance for “Do Behavioral Biases Affect Prices?”
(with Joshua Coval).
Tyler Shumway, Lead article, “Do
Behavioral Biases Affect Prices?” (with Joshua Coval), 2005,
Journal of
Finance, 60 (1) 1-34.
Kathy Yuan,
Nominated for Smith Breeden Prize, 2005, for “Asymmetric Price Movement and
the Borrowing Constraint: A REE Model of Crises, Contagion, and Confusion”.
Lu Zhang,
First place, Smith Breeden Prize, 2005, from American Finance Association
and
Journal of
Finance for “The Value Premium”.
Lu Zhang,
Runner-up, Best Paper Award, 2005 Utah Winter Finance Conference, for
“Anomalies”.
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Lu
Zhang,
Runner-up, Barclay Global Investors Award for Best Conference Paper,
2005 European Finance Association Meetings, for “Investment-based
Underperformance Following Seasoned Equity Offerings,” (with Evgeny
Lyandres and Le Sun).
Lu Zhang,
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, Asset Pricing
Program.
Lu Zhang,
Lead article, “Equilibrium Cross Section of Returns,” August 2003,
Journal
of Political Economy,
111 (4), 693-732, (with Joao F. Gomes and Leonid Kogan).
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